Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/06/65 11:48

Rik wrote:
> Baron Samedi wrote:
>
>>1) oops, I didn't know that about the single quotes. Thanks.
>>
>>What did you mean by "escape the $ for $condition " ?
>
>
> In:
> eval("$condition = ($text)? true : false;");
>
> PHP will try to search for the variable "condition" to put in the eval
> statement.
>
> Escaping it like:
> eval("\$condition = ($text)? true : false;");
>
> will let PHP know it has to treat this part as text, so it will be evalled
> as "$condition" and not the value of the (prehaps existing) variable
> $condition. If it tries to replace it with the value of the variables
> "condition", there is off course no way $condition gets set in this
> statement.
>
> Grtz,

How about:

$condition = (eval ($text)) ? true : false;

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